The drive is on by the globalist elite to ban fossil fuels in the West; a movement against the use of gas stoves and heaters in both Australia and the US being the latest example. But there are intellectuals pushing back against this and the unsubstantiated climate change hysterics paradigm.
For example, Alex Epstein in his book, Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less (2022), puts the case that the so-called climate crisis is vastly exaggerated, but it is still an ideology accepted by the elites, as it serves political purposes. However, as detailed in his book, the movement to so-called renewable energy will not lift people in the Third World out of poverty, as fossil fuels have already aided, but will lock them into deeper poverty: “Fossil fuels are a uniquely cost-effective source of energy. Cost-effective energy is essential to human flourishing. Billions of people are suffering and dying for lack of cost-effective energy.” At present the Green energy initiatives have created spiralling inflation in energy prices, which in turn is impacting upon all aspects of the global economy, at least as far as the West and Third World are concerned.
